LSRAM: A Lo-Su Resource Allocation Mechanism over DOCSIS Cable Network

Abstract

With the emerging of newly deployed multimedia services, an alternative solution must be found to replace the tradition access network. Cable network supports great amount of client users and adequate bandwidth and therefore becomes an elegant solution for modern multimedia applications. However, the bandwidth-sharing characteristic and the lack of bandwidth management scheme in cable network result in some issues. Hence, in this paper we have proposed a management scheme called Lo-Su Resource Allocation Mechanism (LSRAM) to enhance the bandwidth management in cable network. Our mechanism is very simple, easy- implemented, fairly and flexibly assigns bandwidth to each user, and efficiently increases total network throughput